The Press: Ban Broken

At Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport the day
before Christmas, a bundled-up Negro stepped off a night plane from
Tokyo, drove to Kowloon railroad station and boarded a train for the
22-mile trip to Lo Wu on the China border. There, in defiance of the
State Department's refusal to give U.S. newsmen passports to Red China
(TIME, Sept. 3), William Worthy Jr., 36, special correspondent for
Baltimore's Negro semiweekly Afro-American, crossed the border,
became the first American reporter to enter China in seven years.